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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis; 1 edition (24 Oct 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0415348692
  • ISBN-13: 978-0415348690
  • Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 17.2 x 1 cm
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'All the individual contributions ... are consistently well written and thought provoking ... at a time when architects are being arrested in Japan for knowingly putting the public at risk for personal gain, this is an extremely timely publication which I would highly recommend.' - Kevin Nute, The Architectural Review

'A timely contribution to the advancement of the understanding of the complex range of ethical issues faced by the profession.' - Building Research & Information



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Ethical issues, both practical and philosophical, are constantly arising in architectural work. This volume relates a broad range of theoretical questions to dilemmas encountered in practice, informed by contributions from many different disciplines.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Timely Survey of Ethical Issues Faced by Architects, 30 Nov 2005
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While not pretending to be exhaustive, this collection of essays, based on a conference held at Cambridge in 2004, nonetheless gives a clear sense of the enormous range of ethical issues architects face on an almost daily basis; from their often conflicting responsibilities to client and contractor, to their obligations to the greater public good, and in particular the natural environment. Whether most architects are conscious of the issues raised is open to question, which makes their discussion all the more valuable.

It isn't possible in the limited scope of a review such as this to do justice to the individual contributions, which are consistently well-written and thought provoking. I was struck, however, by what appeared to be a clear convergence between several of the papers; namely, the relationship between the individual designer and society at large. Richard MacCormac, for example, makes a compelling case for valuing individual intuition in the service of the common good, which seems to be consistent with Jane Collier's account of John Dewey's notion of the 'Moral Imagination.' Historian Andrew Ballantyne suggests that the only real temporal continuity we have as societies is shared habit, and Sjoerd Soeters describes his personal experiences in practice of using variations on established architectural types to successfully balance the unique and the common.

It may or may not be more than coincidence that the famously withering description of Stirling's History Faculty at Cambridge by the then Professor of Classics (referred to here in Nick Ray's detailed account of the building process and its aftermath) was an apparent reference to its being based on the wrong architectural type, the 'hotel,' rather than the 'library.' Whatever the case, resolving the relationship between the individual and the collective good seems to lie at the heart of many of the ethical issues raised in these papers. At a time when architects are being arrested here in Tokyo for knowingly putting the public at risk for personal gain, this is an extremely timely publication which I highly recommend.

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